Click below to watch Chinese artist Liu Bolin create a similar line at the Valentino store in Milan.

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One of its most striking exhibits is a specially commissioned installation by a female Chinese artist, Yin Xiuzhen.

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Mathaf, billed as an Arab museum of modern art, had Chinese artist Cai Guo-Qiang as the centerpiece of its first major solo show.

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On view through 30 June in Malingue's white, sunny space are works by contemporary Chinese artist Zhang Huan, who uses ash to craft paintings and sculptures that denote the impermanence of human life.

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And in one of the coolest art projects we came across this week, Chinese artist Wang Yuyang used thousands of compact fluorescent light bulbs to create a replica of the Moon.

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The couple is the exclusive dealer for photographer and surrealist artist David LaChapelle in Asia and launched their Hong Kong outpost with a successful show of Chinese artist Zao Wou-ki's colourful abstract canvases.

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She is a Singer, songwriter, clawhammer banjo player, and recording artist who tours the world performing in both English and Chinese.

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The first Aoyama work one encounters is "Idle Evening, " a poem by the Chinese Tang Dynasty poet Bai Juyi, first exhibited in 1938 by the prestigious Taito Shodoin calligraphic association when the artist was in his 20s.

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Mr. Ching said Sotheby's gallery will aim to educate Chinese buyers on Western art by first introducing them to Asian artists who already enjoy an international following, like Japanese artist Yayoi Kusama, as well as 19th-century French painters such as Claude Monet, whose Impressionist landscapes are immediately recognizable to collectors everywhere, Mr. Ching said.

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